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Maxwell, James Clerk
[person]
Scottish theoretical physicist and mathematician born in Edinburgh (1831-1879). Maxwell developed the classical electromagnetic theory, which synthesized previously unrelated observations, experiments, and equations of electricity and magnetism. In 1864, Maxwell wrote A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, in which he proposed that light is a wave. He also described what is now known as Maxwellian distribution, a statistical way of describing the kinetic theory of gases.
Appears in modules:
- Atomic Theory III Wave-particle duality and the electron
- Electromagnetism and Light Introduction to the electromagnetic spectrum
- Introduction to Descriptive Statistics Using mean, median, and standard deviation
- Kinetic-Molecular Theory Molecule collisions, the mean free path, and modern KMT
- The Nature of Light Particle and wave theories
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